Is there a way to ignore the 'Unreachable statement' error?

Question

Is it possible to somehow ignore this error? I find it much easier to just put return in front of the code I don't want to run than to comment it (when the comments overlap and behave badly)...

Answer 1

No. It's a compile time error. So you must get rid of it before running your class.

What I usually do is put a fake if statement in front of it. Something like:

if(true)     return; // unwanted code follows. no errors. i++; j++; 

With this code, you will not get a Unreachable statement error. And you will get what you want.

Answer 2

33. if (1==1) return; 34. System.out.println("Hello world!"); 

It works in other languages too. But ByteCode without row 34.